Despite leading the National League with 41 homers and all of Major League Baseball with 133 RBI, Arenado finds himself on the outside looking in when it comes to the 2016 NL MVP balloting. Kris Bryant of the Chicago Cubs, Washington’s Daniel Murphy and Corey Seager of the Los Angeles Dodgers were named as finalists for the award. The winner will be named on Thursday, November 17.
So why not Arenado? After all, he has gathered plenty of individual hardware, capturing four consecutive Gold Gloves, two straight Silver Sluggers, two consecutive Fielding Bible awards and back-to-back Wilson Defensive Player of the Year awards at third base.